Word: flip-flopped
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...Flip-flop:" the Random House definition reads, "a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude or policy...
...there is something more precious about a genuine, lips-twitching, mouth-frothing, nosegrowing flip-flop. Real flip-flops have a depth of irony and lunacy that make them unusual. They throw journalists, who never satisfy the urge to communicate the two-faced nature of politics, into a frenzy...
...nation's most recent ex-president, Ronald Reagan, has been easier to faults for his honesty than for any lack of consistency. But he also set a record for speed of a flip-flop...
Bush is certainly not the only candidates to flip-flop this year, and many of the reversals had far deeper roots than a 1988 pledge. The ever-changing debate on abortion has caused many politicians to change their stances on the divisive issue...
...somewhat broader vision (although in presenting the award, Audrey Hepburn tagged India with that ancient stereotype "mysterious"). It was a year for fiction, but for outrageous and shocking fiction. It wasn't a year for the sweet and docile fiction of Fried Green Tomatoes. Of course, the Academy may flip-flop next year and nominate a remake of the Sound of Music, but this year will go down as a fairly radical one in the history of Oscar...